Golaem ships Golaem 7.3
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
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Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
MyPaint 2.0 ships
Major update to the open-source digital painting tool mimics real-world paint blending, and adds five new symmetry painting modes.
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship
Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap
Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.4
Open-source 2D animation app gets stop-frame animation tools; vector-guided perspective drawing.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.18
Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant
The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Godot 3.2 ships
Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Aaron Dabelow open-sources his 3ds Max add-ons
Handy tools like procedural geometry creator Debris Maker 2 available free under a MIT licence.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Get promising free low-poly 3D modeling tool Dust3D
Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2020